Hi Support staff

Most software apps that can stress a PC have a minimum and a recommended PC capability list. I went looking to understand what that is for Design but couldn't find one. Is there one published? For example if I have a requirement to remotely run design on an industrial fanless PC what are the requirements?

I ask in that unlike standard new PC's which contain only the latest or perhaps latest minus 1  generation CPU new industrial PCs that contain 5th Generation (and intel has released 13th recently I think) i7's are still available...as are the boilers that provide the steam....... My desktop which runs design fine is 7th gen, but has good SSD and no mechanical drives so slowness in cpu isn't generally noticeable.....

Anyway, I could simply go latest and greatest but it might not exactly be needed so keen to see if you publish a min/recommended list of capabilities. Technically I need an answer, if there is one, for design, simulate and analyse

Andy

When evaluating how software is working using Design and its Measure capability if you have a complex piece of QCode it would be nice if you could hover or click the mouse over a variable or a function in the Qcode and get some indication of what it currently evaluates to. To do that now I have to duplicate the channels and add a result:= whatever I'm looking for at the time in the code after removing the original Result:=, so I can understand what the value is, in the duplicate channel at that point in the code.

The way I think it works at the moment is that Qcode lines that are conditional only show values when the total condition is true, yet a multiple condition line might have 5 true things and one false thing and your not sure which of the 6 are false  and as such why the condition overall is false.... Similarly if the condition is a logical or and as such which exact condition has triggered the overall true state..

I think what is there now in design/measure is good, but it could be better...hopefully it isn't hard to improve on?

Andy

I'm having issues communicating with an CAN Open input module, TPDO1 states the COB ID has to start with 0x4? See below image.

When I insert this into IQAN I get this error:

What am I doing wrong?

Would be nice to see an objects description already when hovering over it in an object list, similar to what happens when hovering over a channel.

Is there a way to link a screen button to logic located in the MC? Example, I am trying to integrate a "manual mode" in my program. I want to be able to press a button on the screen to enable/disable manual mode. Once manual mode is enabled, you can manually change the current value being sent to a motor.

If I have the component navigator open and try to send application via bluetooth a problem happens when IQAN wants to show "Project check"

Three dialog boxes are all open att the same time, but they are all behind the main window unable to be interacted with:

*Component Navigator

*Project warnings

*Open session

What I see on the screen is this window:

No matter how much I click or use alt tab, X in the corner etc I cannot close it.

If however I point to the icon in the task bar I am able to see the three dialog boxes stuck behind like this:

It is not possible to click these dialogs, as soon as I move the mouse pointer they are hidden behind the main window again.

Is there a way to use a non IQAN display to adjust a state parameter, function parameter, integer parameter and digital parameter?  I am looking to use a Parker PHD display in a system and use IQAN masters to handle the logic.  I would like to be able to use touch buttons on the PHD display to change each of the parameter types listed above.

Can this be done?  The communication between the IQAN master and PHD will be over J1939.

I want to update my iQAN Design 5.03 to latest one. I have one time purchase license and I am not ready for yearly subscription. Which version I can update to from 5.03?

I found an issue with Copy Paste of a display page from one design project to another.

To reproduce:-

1) Create a new display page, in my case it was an MD4-10

2) Add a Linear Bar somewhere to the page.

3) Modify the Linear bar so that the colour of the Bar is Red (from the list not from Custom)

4) Add another Bar and this time make it green (from the list not from Custom)

4) Right Click on the Project Manager User Interface, your New display page and select copy

In a 2nd concurrent instance of design open a new project with an MD4-10 module as master module
1) Over the Project Manager User display instance of your Display right click select Paste. The Red Colour of the Linear Bar is lost and the default colour is present. The green Bar comes across just fine.

If you Right Click Paste into the same project as you originally worked in, instead of a new one, a new display page is created but here the colour is retained not lost.

For me when I had multiple linear Bars with different colours overlapping so that visibility channels determined which of the 3 was actually displayed, the Green bar and the Yellow bar came across Ok with the paste, but the Red bar always looses its colour and defaults the to the initial orange/brown that design defaults to... weird

Andy

Due to the camera window overlapping dialog windows I look for a way to see if there is any dialog open at all, which I could use to hide the camera window temporarily.